The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1887-07-28
TERRITORIAL NEWS.
Items of Interest From Both Sides
of the Divide.

of the Divide.
Notes Clipped and Condensed From
Exchanges Published Within
the Territory.
The Manitoba graders are within ten
miles of Great Falls
Hart, the Jefferson county murderer,
has been granted new trial on technical
grounds.
Grading on the Bitter Root Valley road
is going forward rapidly and it will soon
b. ready for track laying.
A man known as big Swede" was
choked to death by piece of tough beef
steak last Sunday at Wickes.
Last Friday afternoon William Miles,
miner employed in the Parrot, in Butte,
was killed by fall of rock in the 4OO-foot
level.
The annual camp meeting of the Meth
odists of Gallatin valley began at Meadow
Greek camp meeting grounds, yesterday,
and will continue till the 31st inst.
The first broad gauge train that ever
fl,o ~ q
pulled out of Butte last Monday morn
ing by Engineer Adams, of the Montana
Union.
Ex-Governor Hauser and party left
Helena last week, bound for Alaska. The
party consists Of Senators Vest, Plumb,
Allison and Farwell, with some members
of their families.
A rich strike is reported as having been
made in the st. Louis mine, at Marys-
vile. The new find is said to be i'm
mense, and is considered continuation
| of the Drum Lummon lead, which mine
it adjoins.
Mollie Haines, Minnie Goettlich and
Ada Davis, three married women Of Hell.
ena, had scrap at the residence of one
! OF them on Court House square last Sat-
urdy. They were arrested and two of
them fined.
Fred Webster, man who robbed Fred
King of about $145 worth of clothing
and jewelry, was taken back to Helena
from Butte last week and lodged in Jail.
He had disposed of about all the stolen
| goods, but they will be recovered in due
time.
While the Utah & Northern train, due
at Butte at $50 last Saturday morning,
was coming down hill at the rate of thir-
ty-tive miles per hour, one of the driving
rods broke and the engine became de-
rallied. Engineer John Else stuck to his
engine, and the train was stopped almost
within its length, and no one was hurt.
A syndicate of White Sulphur Springs
and Fort Benton capitalists are nego-
tiating with view to bonding and leas-
ing one of the principal mines here, and
should they be successful, extensive min
ing operations under the management of
practical and competent mining experts
will at once be set on foot.-Husband-
man.
The Helena papers complain that
tidal wave of tramps, vags, buns and
scum general y has swept over that city,
the vigalantes having expelled the toughs
from Townsend sometime ago and from
Wickes recently and run them into Hell
ena. It is suggested that Helena resort
to the old-time method of making them
skip.
Madisonian; There is somebody fur
nishing whisky to white -blanketed In
dian who has been prowing around here
for several days past Some say that the
Chinese are doing it; but we rather in
cline to the idea that some renegade white
is engaged in the nefarious business. "A
short shrift and long rope" would be
too good for such scoundrels.
The River Press states that J. M. Chris
topher came to Benton from Conrad, with
considerable gold dust for various parties
in the Sweet Grass Hills, and also, We
believe, for James McDevitt, for whom
he was to purchase some supplies and re-
turn with them to Conrad. Instead OF
doing this, he has apparently left for
parts unknown, taking the dust with
him Christopher is man of about 50
years of age. It is not known which way
he went.
The first case under the act to prevent
the sale of liquors within two miles of the
line of the construction of any railroad,
was tried at Fort Benton last Saturday
evening. A verdict Of guilty was found
and defendant was fined $40 and costs.